Women in the labor market - 9781858984995

Women in the labor marketAuthor(s): Marianne A. Ferber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781858984995, 978-1858984995\nSynopsis\nThe rapid influx of women into the labour market has come to be recognised as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of those papers which have made the greatest contribution to our understanding of this development and its causes. The emphasis is on empirical work which has served either to support or undermine the theoretical foundations of this field, but also included are papers by sociologists who provide insights on economic issues not found in the work of [url] opening section explores the causes of women's participation in the labour market. The following section investigates the nature of the work in which women are involved and the explanations .